{"id":163837,"date":"2013-10-09T17:59:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T00:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=163837"},"modified":"2013-10-09T17:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T00:59:34","slug":"li-tianyi-rape-case-verdict-may-help-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/10\/li-tianyi-rape-case-verdict-may-help-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Tianyi Rape Case Verdict May Help Women"},"content":{"rendered":"
Feminist legal scholars say that a precedent set by 17-year-old gang rapist Li Tianyi’s ten year prison sentence “may improve the lives of millions of Chinese.<\/a><\/strong>”\u00a0Li, who pled not guilty, and his mother, a famous singer for the People’s Liberation Army, had insisted that the court should take into account the victim’s occupation as a bar hostess<\/a>. The court disagreed. Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports at The New York Times:<\/p>\n Essentially, the Haidian District Court in Beijing ruled that even if a woman is a sex worker, as Mr. Li alleged, that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s O.K. to rape her.<\/p>\n \u201cThe court didn\u2019t go along with a quite widespread attitude, and an argument of the defense, that women in this line of business, women who are not virgins, deserve what they get,\u201d said Zhang Rongli, a professor of law at the China Women\u2019s University.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel the court\u2019s decision is a very good answer to that argument and to that prejudice that you can divide women into good and bad women,\u201d Ms. Zhang said. \u201cThat was really well done of the court.\u201d<\/p>\n [\u2026] Here\u2019s what the court said: \u201cAs for the assertion about whether the victim was or was not a \u2018bar hostess\u2019 or a virgin,\u201d that was a question of \u201cindividual privacy,\u201d which \u201chas no influence on the determination of the facts of the case.\u201d [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feminist legal scholars say that a precedent set by 17-year-old gang rapist Li Tianyi’s ten year prison sentence “may improve the lives of millions of Chinese.”\u00a0Li, who pled not guilty, and his mother, a famous singer for the People’s Liberation Army, had insisted that the court should take into account the victim’s occupation as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":163840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34,10,14744,14745,14746,5],"tags":[8320,14780,1770,16128,1985,1425,6275],"class_list":["post-163837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights","category-law","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","tag-gang-rape","tag-li-tianyi","tag-sex-industry","tag-sex-workers","tag-women-labor","tag-women-workers","tag-womens-rights","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n